Why Constructive Relativity Fails.
Constructivists, such as Harvey Brown, urge that the geometries of Newtonian and special relativistic spacetimes result from the properties of matter. Whatever this may mean, it commits constructivists to the claim that these spacetime geometries can be inferred from the properties of matter without...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 821 - 835 |
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University of Chicago Press
Dec2008
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